Witch Wind

Chapter 83: The Little Man’s Little Tricks (Part )

Danglars was a man of great ability.

If not for this, he would not have been able to hold on to his position in the Business Department and keep the financial and personnel power firmly in his hands despite repeated plots and assassinations by a certain princess and the open and covert attacks of countless competitors.

The placement of the 3,000 guards was quickly completed.

Most of the properties in the block where the Business Office is located were acquired by the Yingji Business Office at almost zero cost when Jinshan Town was first developed. As the population increased rapidly, they built a large number of houses on it and rented them to various tenants.

It just so happened that one of the tenants was the largest slave trader in Jinshan Town.

This guy has a large group of armed guards. He goes into the jungle specifically to attack large and small indigenous tribes, selecting young and strong men and women. After a certain number of them are captured, they are sent to the Amy Federation for sale.

In the Aimee Federation, heavy industry is developing rapidly, but the giant plantation industry is also in the ascendant. Plantations require a huge amount of cheap labor, and countless cheap labor is lost every year. Every year, the Aimee Federation needs to supplement tens of millions of cheap labor. This is a big business with "small profits but quick turnover" and "high profits".

This slave trader rented more than a dozen large cargo yards from the Commercial Office as temporary residences for the slaves.

Tanglar took back two large cargo yards that were just across the street from the back door of the Business Office. The disciples of the Xingtian family took matters into their own hands and washed down several large three-story warehouses with clean water, then sprinkled a large amount of quicklime on them, and cleaned them thoroughly without any odor.

Then, thick wooden boards were laid on the floor of the warehouse. In this hellhole of Black Borneo, it was hot and humid, so mattresses, quilts and other things were not needed. A thick wooden board was the most comfortable place to rest.

The walls of the two large cargo yards were high and thick, and in order to prevent slaves from escaping, tall sentry towers were built around them. The children of the Xingtian family placed more than a dozen heavy machine guns and several rapid-fire cannons on the sentry towers, making the defense airtight. Even the range of the rapid-fire cannons could cover the entire business office.

Danglars found some familiar English merchants and after bargaining with them, he signed a long-term contract for the supply of large quantities of food with extremely favorable terms.

Cattle, sheep, or other edible livestock, fresh tropical fruits, and staple foods characteristic of tropical regions, etc. Tanglar also brought back enough food for 3,000 people to eat for three months, which was directly stored in the warehouse as a strategic reserve grain.

Even the only two tailor shops in Jinshan Town, which had poor business and were close to bankruptcy, welcomed a big business.

In addition to purchasing food, Tangglar stopped by the tailor shop and placed a large order, asking them to purchase as soon as possible the thick special denim that can be used to move freely in the tropical jungle without being scratched by branches and leaves, and cannot be bitten by ordinary poisonous insects, so as to make suitable uniforms for the 3,000 descendants of the Xingtian family and the 5,000 descendants of the Xingtian family who will be coming later.

The average height of the Xingtian clan members is six feet, which is too high even among the hundreds of countries in the far west.

The Commercial Office had some Royal Ingish Army uniforms in stock, but they were too small to wear. Tanglar was very smart and treated these doomed uniforms as lost inventory and sold them directly to a second-hand dealer, earning a small amount of money.

In short, after Tanglar and Xing Tianli reached a tacit understanding, he became busy like a spinning top, and his work was not in vain. Everything he did had a clear goal and he completed it with extremely high efficiency.

By the afternoon, Tanglar had even found enough craftsmen to start building reinforced concrete turrets on the land purchased by the Commerce Office at several intersections on the street where the Commerce Office was located.

Next to the locations of these selected artillery towers, descendants of the Xingtian family were already standing guard with live ammunition.

The office that Xing Tianli had just decorated also welcomed the first businessman who came to visit - the iron mine owner Smith. He had more than a dozen iron mines of various sizes in Black Borneo, and all of them were extremely high-grade magnetite, with the worst iron content being above 65%.

Smith, who had just stepped into the office under the guidance of the maid, was wearing a coarse hunting suit, a leather vest on his upper body, four revolvers hanging on his belt, and four high-explosive military grenades hanging on his buttocks. He was visibly stunned.

He had been to McLaren's office many times before, and he admired McLaren's extremely extravagant and luxurious furnishing style.

And Xing Tianli’s office.

The ancient, elegant and pure oriental charm made this multi-millionaire mine owner feel inexplicably ashamed. Especially, Xing Tianli was nailing the statue of the Three Pure Ones, which he had worshipped since he was a child in Xiaolongqiu Town, on the wall!

The statues of the Three Pure Ones had inexplicably become somewhat magical under the ten years of worship by Xing Tianli and the influence of his celestial spirit. Smith was just an ordinary man. When he saw the three saints, his knees inexplicably softened, and he knelt down in front of the statues as soon as he entered the door.

After Xing Tianli hung up the statue of the saint, he took two steps back, looked at it carefully, then lit three incense sticks, bowed earnestly towards the statue of the Three Pure Ones, and inserted the incense into the antique small incense burner on the altar!

By the way, this small bronze incense burner has a history of two or three thousand years.

In Nanxun Town, there was a wealthy family who built a family temple and invited a few Taoist priests from nowhere to chant and pray for their family. This wealthy family has been selling Jilexiang for many years, and its sales volume ranks among the top five distributors of Xingtian Qingshu.

When Xing Tianli emptied the wealthy family's money cellar, he also moved out all the furnishings in his family temple.

This incense burner is extremely exquisitely crafted, with an ancient style and decorated with four sacred animal patterns. It is truly magnificent and makes people happy. In this far-away Black Borneo, Xing Tianli was not afraid that the owner would come to recognize the incense burner, so he moved it out decisively.

Such a good incense burner should of course be used for the ancestor that one worships!
Standing up, Xing Tianli looked at Smith, who was still kneeling on the ground, staring blankly at the statue of the Three Pure Ones. He smiled, "Mr. Smith? This is the Three Pure Ones, the Taoist ancestor that we believe in in the East Country. They protect our family and bless our descendants. They are very powerful. Do you want to get a statue to worship?"

Xing Tianli walked up to Smith, pulled him up, and said with a smile: "It's really effective. As long as they worship the Three Pure Ones, I guarantee that all the people of Yingji will be successful no matter what they do in Black Borneo, and they will definitely become rich!"

Smith is also a man of knowledge and taste, otherwise, how could he have made such a big business in a hellhole like Black Borneo?

He immediately took out 30,000 gold coins as merit money, and with a smile he asked for a statue of the Three Pure Ones.

The statues of the Three Pure Ones were not painted by Xing Tianli himself, but were purchased from a specialized incense and candle shop when he was in Nanxun Town, and were printed in batches by experienced woodblock craftsmen.

However, they are all old craftsmen with real "craftsman spirit" and are produced by time-honored brands that have been passed down for hundreds of years. The materials used for the Three Pure Ones are all top-notch, and the printing is extremely exquisite. The Three Pure Ones have dignified and solemn faces, just like real gods!
Xing Tianli invited Smith to drink a pot of tea and discussed with Smith about the future work of the Business Office.

Smith, on behalf of the English businessmen behind him, promised that they would fully support Xing Tianli's work.

Xing Tianli also patted Smith's chest and promised that he would definitely protect the interests of the British merchants in Black Borneo, no matter whether they were legal or illegal, as long as they were the interests of the British merchants, he would protect them without any bottom line!
The people who now rule Black Borneo are the Dongyun people.

The laws they issued, haha, why should Xing Tianli recognize them? In Xing Tianli's heart, all the Yingjishi merchants who dared to violate the laws of Dongyun people and take advantage of Dongyun people were good businessmen with courage, responsibility, ideals and achievements!

While Xing Tianli and Smith were having a pleasant conversation, a four-wheeled carriage, surrounded by dozens of Dongyun guards who were riding horses, uh, donkeys, uh, or horses, was slowly driving towards Jinshan Town.

The Dongyun guards all wore traditional Dongyun armor, made of cowhide, with iron sheets on the outside, painted with more than three coats of raw lacquer, and polished to a glossy finish. Their chests were decorated with metal beast headdresses, and their helmets were also beast or demon head visors, with exaggerated horns and deer horns.

He was wearing traditional armor, with long swords hanging on both sides of his waist and an advanced rifle on his shoulders.

These Dongyun guards are riding mounts.

These mounts, if you call them horses, they are only the size of ordinary donkeys; if you call them donkeys, they look like horses. When these Dongyun people ride on the backs of their mounts, they are like big monkeys squatting on donkeys, their bodies swaying, naughty but also a bit cute.

The four-wheeled carriage was decorated quite luxuriously.

The carriage was made of hardwood, covered with three layers of buffalo hide as the middle defense layer, and inlaid with dragon scale-shaped steel sheets as the main defense layer. The carriage was also painted with more than seven layers of lacquer, and the lacquer was extremely bright, which set off the white family emblem of "white water surrounding the city" on the carriage.

Beihe Cangyi curled up in the brocade mattress in the carriage, yawning lazily. On his left and right, two Saint Rose women, more than a foot taller than him, were leaning against the window, curiously looking at the jungle scenery outside.

Opposite Beihe Cangyi, four petite Dongyun maids lined up and knelt there. The four women had gloomy faces and drooped eyelids, and their gloomy eyes kept turning around the two Saint Ross women. Judging from the viciousness hidden in their eyes, these two Saint Ross blonde beauties would probably not live for more than a month before they would be beaten to death by these four Beihe Cangyi's personal maids.

The Beihe family is the top ruling family in the Dongyun Island Alliance.

Beihe and Nanshan, under the Dongyun royal family, these two families control almost everything in the Dongyun Island Union.

Within the Dongyun Island Alliance, many princes and nobles, and even the common people, all said: "Wen Beihe and Wu Nanshan, it is enough for them to control the affairs of civil and military affairs; as for the lineage of the Holy Emperor, it is enough for them to sit high in the clouds and overlook all living beings."

The meaning of this statement is very clear.

As for the Holy Emperor's family, you can just rest assured and act as a mascot; the real civil and military affairs can be handed over to the Beihe and Nanshan families, as well as the princes and ministers headed by them. With the so-called 'all righteous people in the court', the Dongyun Island Union can enjoy eternal peace for thousands of years!
Especially, Beihe and Nanshan, they and the royal family were originally one!

The first Holy Emperor, Hu Hai, had two sons. Hu Hai appointed his two sons as the Kings of the South and the North. These two princes intermarried with the dwarf natives of Dongyun Island. Their mixed-race descendants grew up to become the two major rulers of Beihe and Nanshan.

Therefore, we are all one, and we all worship the same ancestor in the ancestral temple. So why should we differentiate between ourselves?
Beihe Cangyi has been very troubled recently.

As the eldest son of the current head of the Beihe family, eleven years ago, he brought a group of loyal retainers and wanted to "overthrow his father" and force his father to hand over power and live in the Senate.

As a result, the head of the Beihe family slapped him hard, and all of Beihe Cangyi's retainers were dismissed, and Beihe Cangyi was imprisoned. However, just after one year of imprisonment, the Dongyun people attacked Black Borneo and occupied Black Borneo like a snake swallowing an elephant.

Beihe Cangyi was exiled to Black Borneo, to Jinshan Town, and became the mayor of Jinshan Town!

He didn't even get the mayor of Black Pearl Harbor, or the chief of customs of Black Pearl Harbor, or the commander of the garrison stationed in Black Pearl Harbor. Well, the commander of the garrison is a member of the Nanshan family and a childhood friend of Beihe Cangyi!
He was sent to Jinshan Town to be the mayor, a town with a population of more than 100,000. He was a lowly official, and he held this position for ten years.

How many decades are there in a lifetime?

However, during these ten years, although he wasted his youth and did nothing, his eating and drinking life was top-notch.

The businessmen in Jinshan Town are all wealthy people. As the mayor who represents the Dongyun government and governs the area, he receives countless benefits every year.

With the money, he secretly raised a small private army.

Well, of course, he knew very well that this private army of only a thousand people was just to give himself courage. What could just a thousand people do to the Beihe family, which held half of the power of the Dongyun Island Alliance?

Besides that, there was always a lack of women around him.

The two big blonde girls beside him, whose arms were almost as thick as his waist, were given to him by his childhood friend, Commander Nanshan, when he was fooling around in Black Pearl Harbor these past few days.

“Holy Lord, you damned women, my ambitions have been wasted by you!” Beihe Cangyi murmured, “Ah, my ambitions have been wasted by you.”

Beihe Cangyi sighed helplessly and frowned.

After a few days of drunkenness and dreaming at Black Pearl Harbor, he learned some not-so-good news from his childhood friends and several important officials whom he had deliberately tried to win over over the years.

The sound of wind is very tight.

The country is preparing for war.

The Dongyun Island Alliance has formed an alliance with Western barbarians such as Saint Ross, Farus, Idoli, and the North Sea Seven Nations Alliance, preparing to fight against Yingjishi, Saint Norman, and an extremely special existence - the Holy Mother Church.

The situation has not yet spread to Black Borneo, but the country has already begun frantic preparations for war.

And according to information revealed by his childhood friend, Nanshan Manyue, commander of the Black Pearl Harbor garrison, the Dongyun Island Alliance is preparing to impose military control on important resources in Black Borneo, such as the mines and plantations controlled by British merchants.

The assets of England, Saint-Norman, and the dozen or so vassal states under these two countries will all be placed under military control.

The meaning of "martial law" is obvious, it means official intervention and open robbery!
Of course, in the early days, in order to take into account the international image of Dongyun Island Union, it might leave a bite for those businessmen, but only a small bite. The real profit and the real main resources would be swallowed up by Dongyun.

There is a lot of money here, it's hundreds of millions of real money!

Beihe Cangyi cursed angrily with a very ugly curse word.

Such important news was not passed on by his retainers in the country at all. Instead, he got the news from his childhood friend, a good-for-nothing who started talking nonsense after drinking too much!

"It's all your fault!" Beihe Cangyi pointed at the four maids and yelled. He ordered them to crawl in front of him, then slapped them in the face: "My ambitions and great undertakings, it's all you who have worn away my spirit and turned me into a waste!"

The four maids were beaten to a pulp, but they still had smiles on their faces, nodding "hi, hi, hi" continuously, and thanking Beihe Cangyi for the punishment.

The two blond girls from Saint Rose stared at the scene blankly. They blinked their eyes and pondered for a long time before they finally understood what Beihe Cangyi was doing.

They immediately burst into laughter, and hugged Beihe Cangyi tightly: "Oh, dear, you are so manly. We really love you so much."

The carriage shook and a strange voice with a Saint Rose accent continued to be heard.

Dozens of Beihe Cangyi's guards opened their eyes wide and looked around in a daze, while their little ears were all facing the direction of the carriage.

Finally, at dusk, they returned to Jinshan Town.

The town government office set up by the Dongyun government in Jinshan Town is equivalent to the official government office of the Dayu Dynasty. Beihe Cangyi's right-hand men, the 'left pen head' in charge of civil affairs and the 'right soldier head' in charge of military affairs, were already waiting at the gate of the town. When they saw the shiny big car, they knelt on the ground with a thud.

"Mayor, you're back. Things are not going well!"

Beihe Cangyi put on a full set of hunting clothes with the Beihe family emblem on it and slowly got off the carriage.

When he got off the carriage, in accordance with the custom of the Dongyun nobles, the coachman knelt under the carriage to serve as a step for him to get off.

Beihe Cangyi stepped safely on the driver's back and landed steadily.

Just as the two big and strong girls stepped on the driver's back, there was a scream, and the driver fell down. The two big girls screamed strangely and also rolled to the ground, taking Beihe Cangyi with them and slamming him to the ground.

"Bastard!" Bei Hecang was so angry that he cursed.

(End of this chapter)